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Anime Music Tourney Nominations Commence!

A week has passed and now that people have been able to comment or ask questions to clarify what’s permissible as far as nominations go, we’re ready to kick off the nominations process for the Anime Music of Openings & Endings Tourney. so without further ado…

Nominations are closed.

Points to keep in mind while nominating:

The minimum number of songs you can nominate is 5. The maximum number of songs you can nominate is 15. Obviously, you cannot nominate a song more than once.

When filling out the form, keep in mind that entries are to be entered in [Anime Title] – [Song title] (e.g. Baccano! – Gun’s & Roses).

Note that ordering is important! That is because the location in which you place the song will affect how many points it will earn for seeding purposes. So in this form, the song in your #1 slot will earn 35 points. The song in your 15th slot will earn 5 points.

You can nominate anime opening themes, ending themes, or insert songs from any anime (as defined by whether it can be found on AnimeNewsNetwork’s encyclopedia, MyAnimeList’s listings, AniDB, or Anime-Planet). The songs need not have been written specifically for the anime in question (e.g. Eden of the East – Falling Down). Furthermore, opening/ending/insert songs from international anime releases are OK too (e.g. One Piece – One Piece Rap).

In terms of insert songs’ eligibility, all you need to do is ask yourself whether the song in question features a vocal component, be it J-pop, rap, Gregorian chant, screamo, etc.

One entry per person.

Nominations that do not adhere to these simple guidelines will simply not be counted.

Again, if you have any further questions, feel free to ask. If you’re looking for tournament updates or the status of how things are going, follow the Anime Music Tourney twitter account at @Animusictourney. There will be periodic updates here as well, if anything, to break the monotony until the end of the Nominations phase.

68 thoughts on “Anime Music Tourney Nominations Commence!”

Well. We know who’s going to be in the top again.
*cough* cruelangelthesis *cough*
Besides that, I expect to see lots of Yuki Kajiura’s work being nominated. I mean, her songs make up at least 50% percent of all famous anison.

I didn’t think about nominating that song about souls and whatever, but I did think about nominating something from that person’s library and did sort of do that. It is probably better to nominate a song about a bird’s poem if we want god-tier anison in the same line of thought.

That’s the idea. The reality is people will use those extraneous factors as part of their nomination/voting considerations and if that helps them enjoy a song more, then so be it. I’m not going to stop them from doing so.

That is… completely different from mine. Literally; all 15 songs.
I shouldn’t have made such obvious choices (ι´Д｀)ﾉ
I’d be glad to mock your taste; the problem being, the only song I recognize there is Shangri-La. Which leaves me up for more mockery.

Was too lazy to remembr anything but OP/EDs, so I just posted some of my favorite openings plus the Aku no Hana ending, in this order. Since I can’t remember the names of the songs I’ll just put the anime.

On the plus side, we’re hovering around 50 submitted nominations so far. That’s not bad considering that:
1) We still have roughly 3 weeks to go.
2) I have not submitted my own ballot yet.
3) The rest of my staffers at Anime Instrumentality haven’t submitted theirs.

I’ll still be running an awareness campaign in the meantime, including an announcement over at Anime Instrumentality to at least alert the readership there.

There’s also a method to the madness in why the point distribution is the way it is, one that I’ll explain in a later post! 😀

Just selecting 15 was fun enough (though I’ve spent way too much time on it already and will keep changing my list if I don’t submit it now), so I’m excited for the actual tourney! Good luck with the organization and thanks.

Bokurano: Uninstall
Trigun: Scattered Rain
Something from Cowboy Bebop
Just about everything from Vision of Escaflowne, but if I had to pick, it would be Eh-eh-eh-eh-scaflo-oo-wne and Yakosoku was Iranai
Black Lagoon: I Will Violate You No Matter Who You Are (okay, I know it’s called Red Fraction, but this name is waaaaaaaay cooler